@Cmax thank you! I like Hiromi a lot, especially her trio projects with Anthony Jackson and Simon Phillips. I didn’t mention her albums “Move” and “Spark” which are equally great. I wonder how many people enjoy Hiromi’s music, I don’t usually see her mentioned in this forum even though she’s a terrific pianist, one of the very best IMHO.
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Okay for me when Schubert was writing the wonderful Trout it wasn’t the same as e.g Led Zepp 4.
Not quite sure what you mean?
Your post to which I had responded suggested that classical music didn’t fit the album concept, and by implication not able to identify albums for this thread, which is about how we listen not how a composer wrote, and I simply pointed out that on the classical side certainly much does come as an album of, say, a complete work or collection of related works by one composer (Schubert’s, indeed wonderful, Trout quintet is a case in point). The second part of my comment was thinking in terms of the popularity for some people with non-classical of listening just to isolated tracks rather than music by the album.
Thought about this a lot, a few years ago it would have been easy. Not these days.
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Lowell George - Thanks, I’ll Eat It Here
Didn’t expect to see that in anyone’s list, his version of I can’t stand the rain is superb.
twofifty - I assume you know Rock & Roll Doctor … A tribute to…. If not, check it out.
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Feat are (with The Clash) my favourite band of all time & George like Strummer was a very special musician - unbeatable voice, wonderful slide guitar & great song writer. His solo album is an absolute joy. His stuff with The Factory on the Lightning Rod Man album is half decent & I love the couple of Zappa albums he appeared on although I doubt that’s down to George. I do own the tribute album you recommend. Sadly missed.
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Love Chronicles was a popular choice when I was at grammar school late 60’s. Apparently it was cool to own an album (LP) containing the f-word!
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Love that Yo Yo Ma album.
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Like most could easily post another 10 but one obvious one I missed is Talk Talk’s Colour of Spring.
Quickly running through the list they don’t seem to make it on to many at all, maybe everyone like me and just having a blind spot to some gorgeous music.
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Made mine but Spirit of Eden is never far behind.
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I sing on one of those albums!
For many of the reasons others have said, it’s impossible to compile an accurate list. While there are artists and albums I return to time and again over the years, I like variety. Although I listen to a lot of classical and jazz, I tend not to go back to many recordings so much. These ten are definitely long-term favourites.
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Dire Straits - Communiqué
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Rachael Sage - Smashing the Serene
Sian James - Di-Gwsg
Edward H Dafis - Hen Ffordd Gymreig o Fyw
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Ute Lemper - Illusions
Michael Shenker Group - Live at Budokan
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Ah so chances are you are one of the following- a celebrity in our midst.
Ozzy Osbourne
Robert Plant
Roger Daltrey
Roger Walters
Bryan Josh
Heather Findley
If I was I would almost certainly have a Statement system in every room of the mansion, including the toilets :).
On the other hand, I might have been a backing singer …
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I’m picking Mostly Autumn. Just a hunch, and an excellent band by any measure.
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Okay you sometimes get a classical album where a work stands on its own as in Beethoven V -Kleiber DG but so often classical albums are compilations which I guess makes it like a greatest hits album which I also ignored. And on that is the Eagles Greatest Hits still the biggest selling album of all time? I’ll get me coat, it’s all good 
To follow Celibidache in that way must have been one hell of an experience!
Thanks for the two Welsh recommendations - a joy
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Do you belong to a choir? (Thinking of full vocal version of Peer Gynt)
Ditto Carmina Burana
I did, yet there must be dozens of recordings of Peer Gynt, Carmina and La Traviata and I don’t know which ones @Innocent_Bystander has.
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